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Nikida staked between trees with her bow drawn and arrow notched. Again she was on a hunt. She had to. In order to show that she honored the old man, she'd take care of the people who stumbled on to her camp. Right now though, they needed food and food is what she was intending to get. Staying alert for any signs of movement, she sprung up and let an arrow fly. It hit it's target dead on, instantly killing the deer(a rare sight in this forest) with a single arrow. That was one of the few she would need for the exiles back at camp.

She hadn't noticed him. Almost cursing her lack of alertness on this situation, she looked back at the knight in full armor. Full royal armor, which meant he served the king. Quickly, noctching an arrow she kept a cautious eye on him. "...What business do you have here in the forest of the exiles?" Her voice was firm and her lips were thinned as of right then.

Ryu had been moving swiftly through the forest. He was on his way to a new assignment when he saw someone zip by in the woods. He paid no heed till he heard people talking and stopped, hidden in the leaves of the trees' canopy. He watched the female archer aim her bow to the knight on horse back. He had plenty of time to attend to his task, so he allowed himself the chance to learn more about this new land he was in.

Loche shrugged slightly. "I will continue my mission as planned."
He shifted his view over at the tree this archer had just shot. He loosened his neck and walked back to his horse.
"Do not underestimate me, rebel. You are lucky im letting you stay here."
He flipped the face-plate of his helmet bakc over his head and began walking further into the forest. "And as for calling me a child? That was pathetic."

Loche stopped, a small smirk ran over his face. He got off of his horse and walked up to Nikida, his large body loomed over her, catching her in his streatched out shadow. "Test me will you? Me?"
He laughed, the armor making him sound hollow. "Very well then."
A bright red light glinted under his helmet. He drew his sword and leaned on it. It was almost as big as Nikida herself. After a few slow moments of his calm stance, a huge cloud of dust was quickly kicked itself up, covering Loche in an instant. The dust settled, showing empty air where Loche had been a moment before.
His voice echoed out from a tree branch where he was standing.
"Come get me rebel, see how many limbs you will escape with."

(( and now i find things have picked back up here))
Ryu was impressed at the accuracy of the archers warning shot, he reasoned she might have been able to hit him, might being the key word. He watches as the two for a moment, then using one of his secret techniques, he projected his voice through the shadows and behind there ears, so that they would think he was behind them. To the Knight he sends "you fight someone that was in the midst of hunting while your true prey escapes, what would your king say to such lack in devotion to the task you were doing?" To the archer he sends" your forest to protect and anyone within it, yet you immediately shoot to kill one whom has done little more then watch you, your actions and words contradict one another, perhapes rather then waist time on a fight that need not happen, you should tend to your kill, before some beast comes along to claim it, and deprive you and those you provide for their next meal"
He continues to watch, but has quietly changed locations.

Loche darted through the trees, doging arrows, moving increadibly fast for somone wearing armor. The strage voice in his head barely fazed him. Im suprised you can get past the seal on my mind... He pinpointed down the location of the archer with his keen eyes and lunged forward, raising his massive sword and spinning it around abouve his head. The blade clipped the tree, splitting it and toppling down the branch the archer was standing on. "Im not warning you again; do not attempt to threat me."